Nazimova Productions
2 films on HibingeTV
American film production company operated by the actress Alla Nazimova in partnership with Metro Pictures in the early 1920s. Given unusual creative and financial control for a woman of the period, Nazimova produced art-minded features through the unit, including Salomé (1923), an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play designed by Natacha Rambova. The unit was short-lived; after a string of costly pictures that underperformed, Nazimova left her Metro contract and returned to the stage.
Produced
Drama, Romance
Alla Nazimova produces and stars as Marguerite Gautier, the doomed Parisian courtesan, opposite Rudolph Valentino's Armand Duval in this stylized silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas fils' La Dame aux Camélias. Directed by Ray C. Smallwood from June Mathis's scenario, the film transplants the story to 1920s Paris and surrounds it with lavish Art Deco sets by Natacha Rambova, whom Valentino would marry. The film is in the public domain in the United States.
Drama · Romance · Silent
Camille
1921 - Drama
Drama, Religious
Alla Nazimova produced and stars in this adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play, with Charles Bryant directing. Nazimova plays Salomé, the stepdaughter of Herod who demands the head of John the Baptist in exchange for her dance. The film is a sustained art-deco experiment, shot almost entirely on a single set draped in beaded curtains, with designs by Natacha Rambova that lean hard into the stylized look Wilde's text invites. The cast and crew were largely gay and lesbian, and the production has long been read as a coded piece of queer cinema. It was a financial failure on release and nearly disappeared, but surviving prints made it one of the most talked-about rediscoveries when 1923 works entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019.
Drama · Religious · Silent
Salomé
1923 - Drama